The Linguistic Atlas of the State of Ceará (ALECE)

Abstract

The Linguistic Atlas of Paraiba (ALPB), published in 1984, is the result of the work of a group of Professors of the Department of Vernacular and Classical Letters from the Federal University of Paraíba, coordinated by Professor Maria do Soccorro Silva de Aragão. For the organization of the point network of ALPB, 25 "towns-base" were chosen with, in addition, three satellite localities for each, for a total of 100 towns of the homogeneous micro-regions, with similar physical, social and economic features, which cover the entire State. The satellite towns served for control and validation of data collected in our "towns-base" and are not included therefore on the cards. The questionnaire was divided into two parts: a general part, with 289 data and a portion with 588 specialized data. The ALPB was published in two volumes. Volume 1 contains the lexical and phonetic maps and the Volume 2 an introduction with reference to the work history and the methodological approach used, a quick analysis of forms and linguistic structures identified, a glossary and a bibliography. The Linguistic Atlas of Paraíba was the third Linguistic Atlas published in Brazil after the Atlas Prévio dos Falares Baianos (1963) and the Esboço de um Atlas Linguistico de Minas Gerais (1977).

A Brazilian Contribution for Automated Linguistic Cartography

“…The linguistic mapping of the first five Brazilian linguistic atlases published, the Atlas Prévio dos Falares Baianos -APFB [22], the Esboço de um Atlas Linguístico de Minas Gerais -EALMG [23], the Atlas Linguístico da Paraíba -ALPB [24], the Atlas Linguístico de Sergipe -ALS [25], and the Atlas Linguístico do Paraná -ALPR [26] was drawn manually, especially the first. As evidenced by [27], without computing resources today, the transcripts of the original APFB were prepared by designers, photographed and pasted at their respective points of each map.…”

Entre duas metrópoles: (-R) em Itanhandu

“…No Brasil, já foram realizados muitos estudos sociolinguísticos sobre a pronúncia variável de (-r) 1 (ROSSI et al, 1963;ZÁGARI, 2005ZÁGARI, [1977; ARAGÃO;MENEZES, 1984;CALLOU, 1987;FERREIRA et al, 1987;CALLOU;MORAES;LEITE, 1996;KOCH et al, 2002;CRUZ, 2004;RAZKY, 2004;LIMA, 2006;BRANDÃO, 2007;PEREIRA, 2007;MONARETTO, 2008;MENDES, 2010;LOURDES, 2011;MENDES;OUSHIRO, 2012, OUSHIRO, 2015, entre outros), sobretudo em contexto pós-vocálico medial e final. O interesse por tal variável linguística evidencia sua relevância como marca regional: os diferentes trabalhos aqui citados foram realizados em vários estados brasileiros com o intuito geral de caracterizar sociolinguisticamente cada região.…”